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Services

We stay on site, because the material only performs if it is laid right

Supervision, plant, and specification support for design teams. Scoped in writing, with a plain list of the work we decline.

Beyond Materials

Selling the brick is the easy part.

A standardised material only performs if it is laid the way it was tested. That is why we do not stop at the delivery note. Ecored supplies build supervision, the plant needed to press and lay, and specification support for the architects and engineers drawing the thing in the first place — the three places where an earth-built wall is most often let down.

These services exist to protect the material’s reputation as much as your programme. We are early, and every wall built from Ecored brick is currently a reference. That gives us a strong reason to be on your site rather than off it.

On Site

Two things we bring to your site

Both are scoped in writing before we mobilise, so there is no argument later about who was supposed to provide what.

A mason laying brick to a taut string line

Build supervision

An Ecored engineer attends your site at agreed hold points from set-out through to handover. This is quality supervision of the material and its workmanship — not project management, and not a clerk of works role over your other trades.

What is included

Setting out and checking the coursing module against your drawings. Signing off the damp-proof course and the wall base detail, since water at the foot of an earth wall causes more failures than anything else. Approving the mortar mix and joint thickness at the first lift. Inspecting curing and rain protection while the work is green. Checking the sample panel is still being matched. A written report after each visit, with photographs and any instructions issued.

Who turns up

One engineer per visit, with the batch records for what has been delivered. On larger pours or first-time crews we send a second person for the opening lift so the bricklayers get shown rather than told.

What you provide

Site access and induction, your own bricklaying crew, drawings and any subsequent revisions, safe storage for delivered material, water and power, and a named site contact who can make decisions. We supervise the laying; we do not supply the labour that lays.

Included with supply · Abuja FCT and surrounds

A masonry saw cutting a brick on a site bench

Machinery & equipment

Compressed stabilised laterite needs plant — a press to form the units, compaction on the ground, and the right handling equipment to move brick without breaking it. Rather than send you to hire it blind, we bring it as part of the job.

What is included

Brick and block presses. Compaction plant for sub-base and paving beds. Handling and laying equipment for pavers. Delivery to and recovery from site, plus routine servicing and consumables for the duration. Trained operators are available on request, and we recommend them for a first project — a badly operated press produces units that look right and are not.

Who turns up

A driver with the plant, and an operator where you have asked for one. The operator stays with the machine and will train one or two of your people alongside if you want the capability to remain on site after we leave.

What you provide

A hardstanding or level working area for the plant, clear access for delivery, water on site, secure overnight storage, and fuel unless we have agreed otherwise in writing. Where we supply an operator you provide the working area and welfare; where you operate it yourself you take responsibility for the units produced.

Project-scoped · Operators on request

Photography on this page is licensed stock, not Ecored crews or Ecored plant. Scope, plant schedule and attendance frequency are set in writing per project.

Before Site

Specification support for architects and engineers

Most of what goes wrong with an earth-built wall is decided at drawing stage, not on site. A window head placed off the coursing module, a missing overhang, a wall base sitting flush with the paving — none of these can be fixed by good bricklaying. So we make ourselves available to design teams early, at no charge and with no obligation to buy from us.

Drawings and technical data

Unit dimensions and tolerances, wall build-ups, and standard details for the junctions that matter: damp-proof course and plinth, window and door reveals, lintels and ring beams, parapets and copings, and the interface between laterite walling and a concrete frame. Issued as drawings you can bring straight into your own set rather than a datasheet you have to translate.

Coursing and setting-out

A coursing chart for the interlocking profile so floor-to-floor heights, sill and head levels and screen openings land on whole courses. We will mark up your elevations and tell you which dimensions to move and by how little. Screen-wall patterns are set out course by course before anyone orders material.

Sample panels and specification wording

We build a sample panel in your chosen bond, joint and finish for the design team to approve, and it becomes the site benchmark. We will also draft the walling clauses for your specification and NBS-style schedules, including workmanship, curing, protection and the tolerances we expect to be held to.

Test data and certification

Current SON certification for the cement, and the NBRRI test position on the bricks as it stands at the time you ask. If a result is not yet certified we will say so plainly rather than quote it as though it were. Design teams need to know which numbers they can rely on and which are still indicative.

All technical figures we circulate — strength, thermal and cost figures alike — are indicative pending NBRRI test certificates. Do not specify against them without asking us for the current position first.

Boundaries

What we do not do

An early-stage company that says yes to everything ends up doing none of it well. These are jobs we will decline, and in most cases we can point you to someone who does them properly.

  • We are not a main contractor. We do not take on your build, hold your programme, or carry your trades. We supply material, plant and supervision under a separate appointment.
  • We do not do structural design. Foundations, frames, ring beams, lintels and roof structures are for your engineer. We will tell you what the walling needs; we will not sign the calculations.
  • We do not supply bricklayers. Your crew lays the wall. We train and supervise them on the material, which is a different thing from employing them.
  • We do not do architectural design. We will comment on drawings and mark up coursing. We will not produce your scheme.
  • We do not certify other people’s materials. Our supervision covers Ecored product and its installation. It is not a general quality sign-off on your build.
  • We do not take on emergency remedial work on earth walls built with material we did not supply. We are willing to look and give an opinion, but we will not warrant a repair to an unknown mix.
  • We do not quote a carbon figure per unit yet. We have not completed a life-cycle assessment with a defined boundary, so any number we gave you would be a guess. When we have one, we will publish the boundary alongside it.
  • We do not claim a track record we have not got. Ecored was established in 2026. If a supplier tells you otherwise about us, they are mistaken.

Certification note: building materials in Nigeria are certified by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria. Our cement is SON certified. Our brick testing is with NBRRI, our research partner.

Tell us what you are building and who is drawing it.

Design teams can call us before there is a project. Contractors can call us before there is an order. Both conversations are free and neither commits you to anything.

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